(a) To represent persons or things in pictures or drawings; paint; (b) to represent (sb. or sth.) in painting, portray (a likeness of a person); (c) ppl. i)peint, i)peinted, represented in paintings or drawings, portrayed, painted, sketched; (d) fig. to portray (sb. in one's heart), fix (sth. in somebody's heart); (e) to trace (the sign of the cross); (f) to write (sth.), inscribe.

(a) To decorate (sb. or sth.) with drawings or paintings; illuminate (writings); emblazon (a shield); (b) peinted cloth, a cloth or hanging decorated with painted figures or images [see also cloth lb. (f)]; (c) to tattoo (the body); (d) to inscribe (a statue).

(a) To paint the surface of (sth.), color (sb. or sth.), stain (sb.); smear (one's face), smudge; don ~, cause (sth.) to be painted; refl. smear oneself (with somebody's blood); (b) ppl. i)peint, i)peinted, painted over (with pigment or dye), stained, painted in (a color); smeared; peinted al blodi, smeared with blood; peinted as (with) gold, ipeinted of gold (silver), with gold peinted, etc.; (c) ppl. ipeint, peinted, provided with colors, colorful; of an albino's eyes: pigmented, colored; ben peint, to have a complexion (as sb.); (d) to apply cosmetics; adorn (eyes or face with cosmetics); refl. adorn oneself (with cosmetics); (e) to use (coloring matter) in painting; (f) fig. to affect (sb.) spiritually in an adverse way; stain (a person's heart), sully.

(a) To adorn (sb. or sth.), decorate, deck; also fig.; (b) ppl. i)peinted, i)peint, of food, garments, walls, etc.: decorated, ornamented, garnished; also fig.; peint tile, a decorated tile; (c) ppl. peinted, of birds: represented in embroidery; (d) ppl. ipeint(ed, marked (with sth.).

(a) To describe vividly; also, speak floridly; (b) to use (words) in a colorful or artful manner; embellish (a lie, discussion, carol, etc.); ppl. peinted, of style, words, etc.: florid, colorful, full of artifice; (c) to describe (sb. or sth.); narrate (a tale).

(a) To feign, deceive; (b) to give a false appearance to (sth.), disguise; color (one's words); (c) ppl. peinted, of words, language, argument: feigned, deceptive, specious; of clerics: false, deceiving, hypocritical; (d) to fabricate (a falsehood), invent.